Automobile-hood clip



i w. FRANKLIN.

AUTOMOBILE HOOD CLIP.

APPLIQATION HLED 056.26, 1919.

Patented Nov. 22, 1921.

INVENTORv M a v. 12

A TTORNEYS FREDERICK W. FRANKLIN. SYRACUSE. NEW YORK.

AUTOMOBILE-HOOD CLIP.

Application filed December 26. 1919.

To u/l ill/1011i it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK TV. FRANK- LIN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Syracuse, in the county of ()nondaga and State of Xew York, have invented a certain new and useful Automobilellood Clip, of which the following is a speciti *ation.

This invention has for its object a hood clip or catch for holding the hoods of automobiles in their closed position which clip or catch is particularly simple and economical in construction, highly efiicient and durable in use, and readily substituted for certain forms of hood clips now supplied with motor cars and particularly for the hood clips furnished with Chevrolet cars.

The invention consists in the novel features and in the combinations and constr uc tions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing this invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is an elevation of a hood clip embodying my invention, the contiguous portion of the hood and also the side sill on which the lower edge of the hood rests, being also shown.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical sectional view, partly in elevation, of my hood clip, the contiguous portion of the sill being shown in section.

Fig; 3 is a fragmentary elevation looking to the left in Fig. 2.

Figs. 4, 5 and (S are respectively, sectional views, taken on lines 44, 55, and 6-6, Fig. 2.

Fig. is a sectional view also taken on line 5-5, the spring seat being omitted.

Fig. 8 is a plan view of the spring seat.

Fig. 9 is a plan view of the lug on the-hood with which the clip cooperates. I

This hood clip comprises generally, a tubular body or barrel 1 having a shoulder 2 for coacting with the lug 3 on "the hood 4', a rod 5 extending into the tubular body through the lower end thereot'and being hinged or swiveled at its lower end to the automobile body or sill thereof, and a spring encircling the rod within the body and pressing upwardly on a shoulder on the rod and at its lower end against a spring seat at the lower end of the body, said spring seat being detachably engaged with the body. The body Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 22, 1921.

Serial No. 347,374.

is also provided with one or more laterally extending handles 6.

The shoulder on the rod against which the spring abuts, as here shown, has a nut T located in the body 1, the body being provided with a seat or socket 8 which holds the nut from turning. the socket and the nut being hexagonal.

9 is the spring seat detachably connected to the lower end of the body and as here shown this spring seat is shown as a noncircular washer. square in general outline; and the body is formed with a similar shaped non-circular opening 10 at its lower end, this opening 10 being provided in an inturned flange 11 at the lower end of the body.

The spring seat or washer can thus be passed through the opening 10 when it is arranged to come into alinement therewith and will interlock with the flange 11 upon a partial or one-eighth turn of the washer. Preferably, the flange 11 is provided with seats 12 into which the corners of the square shaped washer 8 will snap.

13 is a spring interposed between the nut 7 and the spring seat 9, the spring resisting upward movement of the body 1 and hence disengagement of the shoulder 2 from the lug 3 on the hood.

The lower end of the rod 5 is here shown as provided with a head or ball l-l located in a socket 15 which is secured to the sill 16 of the vehicle in any suitable manner as by screws 17, this socket being formed up of sheet metal in the form of a socket. The lug 3 is of the form shown in Fig. 9.

The rod 5 and the means of attachment to -tl-iesill, per 86, form no part of this in vention, and are of standard construction. A 15y my invention, the barrel or body 1 with the nut 7 seated therein, the spring 13, and

the spring seat 9, can be furnished as a unit and can be readily substituted for the parts now provided on these rods, as part of the standard equipment, by inserting the rod through the lower end of the barrel 1 and through the spring seat 9 and threading the same into the nut 7, or by removing the spring seat 9, spring 13 and nut T from the tubular body and placing them on the rod and then inserting the rod with the nut and spring thereon int' the tubular body and tinallv passing the spring seat 9 through the noncircular opening 10 of the tubular body and giving it a one-eighth turn.

The spring can be adjusted to the proper tension by turning the barrel on the rod, this turning movement moving the nut along the rod in one direction or the other.

\Vhat I claim is:

1. A hood clip comprising a tubular body, arod extending into the tubular body through the lower end thereof and having a nut thereon, a spring seat located in the lower end of the body and having means for interlocking with the body, the body being formed with a non-circular opening at its lower end, a spring seat conforming to said opening, the body and the spring seat having means for interlocking when the spring seat is passed through said opening and given a partial turn, and a spring encircling the rod and interposed between the nut and the spring seat, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. An automobile hood clip comprising a tubular body having a non-circular opening at its lower end, and a seat for a nut near the upper end of the bore thereof, the nut movable into the body through the lower end thereof into engagement with said seat, a rod extending into the hollow body and threading into said nut, a spring encircling the rod and abutting against the nut, and a spring seat slidable on the rod and movable through the non-circular opening and having means for interlocking with the body upon a partial turn of said spring seat after the same has been moved through the noncircular opening, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, and State of New York, this 5th day of December, 1919.

FREDERICK V. FRANKLIN. 

